Chaucer's pilgrims
Subtitle: an historical guide to the pilgrims in The Canterbury tales
By: edited by Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin.
Contributors: Lambdin, Laura C.; Lambdin, Robert T.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400 -- Characters -- Pilgrims; Occupations in literature; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; Tales, Medieval -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- England; Occupations -- England -- History; Professions -- England -- History
Description: A reference that examines the various vocations of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Each expert chapter describes a particular pilgrim's specific funtion in 14th-century Englans. The emphasis is on the historical position of the various vocations foreworded in the "General Prologue." Other considerations are the link between the profession and tale in terms of the pilgrim's character as defined in the "General Prologue", and the ways in which the pilgrim's character goes beyond what might normally be expected from a member of such a group. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography of recent critical works relative to that pilgrim.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-390) and index.
Table of contents: title: A knyght ther was -- Michael A. Calabrese; title: A yong squier -- Peggy Huey; title: A yeman had he -- John W. Conlee; title: Ther was also a nonne, a prioresse -- Maureen Hourigan; title: Another nonne with hire hadde she -- Rebecca Stephens; title: And preestes thre -- Catherine Cox; title: A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie -- John P. Hermann; title: A frere ther was, a wantowne and a meryee -- Karl T. Hagen; title: A merchant was ther with a forked berd -- Nancy M. Reale; title: A clerk ther was of Oxenford also -- Bert Dillon; title: A sergeant of the lawe, war and wyse -- Joseph Hornsby; title: A frankeleyn was in his compaignye -- Elizabeth Mauer Sembler; title: An haberdasher ... -- Laura C. and Robert T. Lambdin -- ...; title: And a carpenter ... -- Julian N. Wasserman and Marc Guidry -- ...; title: A webbe ... -- Gwendolyn Morgan -- ...; title: A dyere ... -- Diana R. Uhlman -- ...; title: And a tapycer -- Rebecca Stephens; title: A cook they had with hem for the nones -- Constance B. Hieatt; title: A shipman ther was, wonynge fer by weste -- Sigrid King; title: With us ther was a Doctour of Phisik -- Edwin Eleazar; title: A good wife was ther of Biside Bath -- Judith Slover; title: And was a povre persoun of a toun -- Esther M.G. Smith; title: With hym ther was a plowman, was his brother -- Daniel F. Pigg; title: The millere was a stout carl for the nones -- Laura C. and Robert T. Lambdin; title: A gentil maunciple was ther of a temple -- John H. Fisher; title: The reve was a sclendre colerik man -- Richard B. McDonald; title: A sumonour was ther with us in that place -- James Keller; title: With hym ther rood a gentil pardoner -- Elton E. Smith; title: Harry Bailly : Chaucer's innkeeper -- Thomas C. Richardson; title: I demed hym som chanoun for to be -- Christine N. Chism; title: His yeman eek was ful of curteisye -- Robert T. and Laura C. Lambdin; title: "What man artow?" : the narrator as writer and pilgrim-- Katharine Wilson.